lunes, 27 de diciembre de 2021

Everything About Christmas. Peekaboo Kidz

Peekaboo is YouTube channel specially designed for kids with Educational Videos, Classic English songs, Phonics Songs, Lullabies and more.

Find it on:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PeekabooKids/featured

Here you can find an example through a video dedicated to the history of Christmas.

sábado, 25 de diciembre de 2021

Designing an advert

The OER Designing an advert is an English project for 1st ESO in which students will have to design a multimedia advertising campaign for a product they have imagined themselves.

This content combines an essential dimension of project-based learning: the dissemination by students of everything they have learnt and the activities they have carried out.

This educational resource allows students to acquire the English skills covered in the curriculum and to develop other skills such as digital competence. It also allows an interdisciplinary approach and can be adapted to the learning of any foreign language.

Discover it on:

https://cedec.intef.es/proyectoediainglesreadesigning/ 

The life of women and men in Europe 2021. Interactive edition

The life of women and men in Europe is an interactive publication that aims at comparing women and men in their daily lives. It also shows how similar or different the everyday life of women and men is in European countries.

This publication includes three chapters:

Living & ageing focuses on demography and health, including for example data on life expectancy, single mothers and fathers and how we perceive our health. 

Learning & earning includes data on education levels, reconciliation of work and family life, full-time and part-time work, the gender pay gap, female and male managers, etc. It highlights not only structural differences but also inequalities between women and men.

Eating & surfing focuses on nutrition, sport practice and online practices, including for example data on consumption of fruit and vegetables, alcohol consumption, body mass index, use of social networks and online shopping. A final part is dedicated to childcare, housework and cooking

The life of women and men in Europe contains short texts, interactive visualisation tools, infographics, photos, etc. It has been developed by Eurostat in collaboration with the National Statistical Institutes of the EU Member States and the EFTA countries

Visit:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/womenmen/ 

sábado, 18 de diciembre de 2021

Funky English by @EnglishStudy

Funky English was previously a social network for English language learners. It is now a website that features a range of English language learning materials including British culture, common phrases, grammar, idioms, phrasal verbs, proverbs, slang, language in the news…

Visit Funky English on:

https://funkyenglish.com/

American Panorama

American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States that combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques. It is an ongoing project created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond.

American Panorama has been designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps. 

Find it on:

https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/ 

sábado, 11 de diciembre de 2021

English Idioms, Phrases, Proverbs, & Slangs

Idioms, Phrases, Proverbs, and Slangs are a great way to express your thoughts while impressing people.

English Idioms and Phrases is a  English learning app that helps students learn all the English idioms, phrases and slangs with their meanings, definition and examples. 

Through this application you can learn:

- Popular English idioms  

- Best English Phrases 

- English Proverbs with Meanings 

- British and American Slangs 

The app daily sends you Idiom, Phrase, or Proverb of the Day  It gives definition, meaning, and example of each phrase, idioms, slang, and proverbs. The app also has quizzes that will let you know your progress. You can also mark phrases, idioms, proverbs and slangs as Favorites. (Source English Idioms, Phrases, Proverbs, & Slangs)

Downloadable from GooglePlay on:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vocabularybuilder.idiomsandphrases 

Historiana

Historiana is an on-line educational multimedia tool that offers students multi-perspective, cross-border and comparative historical sources to supplement their national history textbooks.

Historiana promotes  the development of critical thinking, digital and other transversal competences important for preparing a young generation for active participation as citizens of the 21 st Century.

It might be considered as a digital alternative to a European textbook by offering a framework for comparing and contrasting the impact on and responses by Europe’s nations to a range of different events and developments which have shaped the world from the distant past to modern times. (Source Historiana)

Find on Historiana historical content, learning activities and innovative digital tools made by and for  history educators across Europe.

https://historiana.eu/

sábado, 4 de diciembre de 2021

ChatterPix Kids

Free resource for children. This app allows you to share a sound image to which you have added your voice. It can be interesting as an activity for the English class to create messages of various kinds. 

On App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id734046126?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

On Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckmoosedesign.cpkids

Covid is Airborne

Resources on transmission & prevention of COVID-19 with focus on airborne routes i.e. aerosols (& ballistic droplets).

This webpage includes reports, guides, tools, media articles, infographics & images, videos, science articles, webinars...

Visit:

https://www.covidisairborne.org